24 Bible Verses about Praising Specific People

My dove, my undefiled, is [but] one. She is the only one of her mother. She is the choice one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed, [yea], the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.

And the king said, What honor and dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this? Then the king's servants who ministered to him said, There is nothing done for him.

So Haman came in. And the king said to him, What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor? Now Haman said in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honor more than to myself?

And Haman said to the king, For the man whom the king delights to honor,

At that time I will bring you in, and at that time I will gather you. For I will make you a name and a praise among all the peoples of the earth when I bring back your captivity before your eyes, says LORD.

I have become foolish, boasting. Ye compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I came short in nothing of those, superlative apostles, even though I am nothing.

And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

it came to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes torn, and earth upon his head. And so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the ground, and did obeisance.

Was he not most honorable of the three? Therefore he was made their captain. However he did not attain to the [first] three.

He was more honorable than the thirty, but he did not attain to the [first] three. And David set him over his guard.

These things Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did, and had a name among the three mighty men.

Why do ye kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in [my] habitation, and honor thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chief of all the offerings of Israel my people?

And his lord commended the unrighteous manager because he did shrewdly. Because the sons of this age are shrewder in their own generation than the sons of the light.

Now I commend to you our sister Phoebe who is a helper of the congregation at Cenchreae,

And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.

And all witnessed to him, and wondered at the words of grace that proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is this not the son of Joseph?

Now I praise you, brothers, that ye remember me in all things and keep the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.

And when I arrive, whomever ye may approve by letters, I will send these men to bring your gift to Jerusalem.

And let these also first be proven, then being blameless, let them serve as deacons.

Also they spoke of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. [And] Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.

Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Unless we need, as some men, commendatory letters to you or commendatory from you?

Now in this that is commanded, I do not praise you, because ye do not assemble for the better but for the worse.

And all the king's servants, who were in the king's gate, bowed down, and did reverence to Haman, for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai did not bow down, nor did him reverence.

And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow down, nor did him reverence, then Haman was full of wrath.